Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Data is changing the way we work and live. There
will be 40% more data year after year. We can lead this change of data culture
where we harness more data types, tackle big data and deliver solutions
faster.The Microsoft Data Platform is a
no compromise
platform where there is no side of technology which is best. Everything just
works together from scale up to scale out and from unstructured to structured
data. It is a solution that scales with needs with no restrictions.

The aims to capture diverse data, achieve elastic scale, maximize performance
& availability and simplify with cloud. Microsoft want no boundaries, be
able to maximise the customer experience and make it easy to run.

Achieve elastic scale with 3 options SQL Server 2014 with Windows Server
2012R2, SQL Server in Azure VMsand
Azure SQL Database. Combines simplicity and power in scale out with the best tool for the
job. We are at the beginning of amazing possibilities

Simplify with Cloud using Hybrid scenarios with SQL Server 2014 and Azure as a data lake to store big data in its natural form. SQL Server benefits from the cloud as well and one engine can handle all workloads. Some assets however will always be on premises

We need to think of data differently. There will be an upcoming preview of Azure SQL
Database which will include major changes to the platform.

There is a need to understand the past, analyse the present and predict what’s
next. The tools available are Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics and Azure Machine learning.
Microsoft announced Free Machine Learning azure.com/ml

Azure Data factory is like SSIS for orchestrating across the cloud without
installing anything and is fully managed. Azure Stream Analytics is for data in
motion and Machine learning for driving predications.

The last section of the keynote covered Power Pivot and Power Query to allow you to get the data easier, model, cleanse and then transform it for upstream use. Power BI SaaS offer simplifies deployment and reduce time to solution. Q& A natural language query in PowerBI allows users to ask questions of the data by typing.

Live operational dashboards will be available in Power BI to drive
business insight.